Stevens, of Fern Court, Belt Road, was already serving an eight-month sentence suspended for two years for an incident of dangerous driving in 2017.

Serial burglar Steven Ruscoe has been jailed for six years after stealing vehicles from outside people’s homes and using them to commit other crimes.

Steven Ruscoe has been jailed for six years (Image: Staffordshire Police)

Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court heard how the 34-year-old even managed to give police the slip after a high-speed chase in one of the cars. The Audi – described by its devastated owner as his ‘pride and joy’ – was later found burnt out in Cheshire.

Ruscoe was finally caught as he got into the driver’s seat of another vehicle. Inside it were items linking him to other offences, StokeonTrentLive has reported.

Ruscoe admitted three charges of burglary, two of theft, and three offences of taking a conveyance without authority. He also pleaded guilty to dangerous driving, making off without payment, fraud and handling stolen goods.

Ruscoe targeted homes in Biddulph, Harriseahead and Mow Cop.

He has been jailed for six years.

A cocaine dealer tried to take a tight corner at 80mph while being chased by police. It didn’t end well.

Dwaine Lewis (Image: BirminghamLive)

Staffordshire Police officers were on patrol in Cannock on the evening of Saturday January 28 2017 when a black BMW passed them on the Girton Road at high speed, BirminghamLive has reported.

The officers followed the vehicle and then began a blue light pursuit.

Dwaine Lewis, attempted to escape, and tried to turn into Wolverhampton Road, towards the village Cheslyn Hay, at more than 80mph.

Lewis rolled his car and miraculously escaped with minor injuries.

Following a vehicle search officers found over 42 grams of cocaine valued at between £3,000 and £4,000.

Dwaine Lewis, 28, of Fourth Avenue, Wolverhampton, was convicted at Stafford Crown Court of possessing a Class A substance with intent to supply on 11 September. He pleaded guilty to dangerous driving at an earlier date. Lewis was sentenced to five years in prison and disqualified from driving for six years.

A Stoke-on-Trent man who was found guilty of sex offences which took place in the 1980s and 1990s has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Paul Rothwell, aged 61, was sentenced (Sept 21) at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court after he was found guilty of five counts of indecent assault and one count of indecency with a child at an earlier hearing.

He was convicted of the offences at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court on 13 August.

The court heard the offences were committed against a girl who was ten or eleven at the time, a teenage girl and a woman, and took place in the mid-1980s and mid-1990s in north Staffordshire.

Two elderly Stoke-on-Trent brothers have been jailed after they were found guilty of sexual assaults dating back more than twenty years.

Joe and Brian Salt

Joseph Salt, 80, of Malton Grove, Tunstall, was found guilty of two counts of rape, three counts of indecent assault and one count of indecency with a child at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court in January. He was sentenced to 16 years’ imprisonment.

His case can only now be reported after restrictions were lifted following the completion of his brother, Brian Salt's, trial.

Brian, aged 76, of Casewell Road, Sneyd Green, was found guilty of three counts of indecent assault on a male. He was cleared of two counts of indecency with a child at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court on August 17.

He was today (Sept 21) sentenced to three years’ imprisonment.

'Nightmare neighbour' Karen Marshall sent letters threatening to take revenge against a family she blamed for getting her jailed - from her prison cell.

Karen Marshall sent threatening letters to her victims from prison

The 52-year-old sent one of the letters just three days before she was due to complete her two-year prison sentence after admitting two blackmail charges, Stoke on Trent Live has reported.

She was locked up after threatening to kill the family if they did not hand over thousands of pounds.

And when she was released from prison Marshall even turned up at her victims' address.

Now the defendant has been locked up for a further 15 months after admitting charges of threatening to take revenge and harassment.

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McCouaig, who has since left North Staffordshire and now lives in Oxfordshire, pleaded guilty to publishing an obscene article between August 14 and 22 last year.

Judge Paul Glenn said the offending was so serious it had to be marked with an immediate jail sentence.

McCouaig was ordered to pay £1,250 costs.

A 30-year-old man who targeted four Burton stores numerous times over a seven-week period has been jailed.

Ashley Mountford, of no fixed address, targeted Burton's Sainsbury's store three times in less than two weeks, a court heard.

He appeared at North Staffordshire Justice Centre to admit nine shoplifting charges, BurtonLive has reported.

Mountford swiped items including toiletries from Boots and Superdrug and groceries from Sainsbury's and Nisa.

Mountford was jailed for 26 weeks because magistrates heard he had committed numerous offences and because of his high number of previous convictions. Mountford was also ordered to pay a £115 victim surcharge.